Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

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Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

ϑ wrote:

My default screen resolution is 1680x1050 and I have been trying to lower it for getting better visibility in firefox.

May i ask why you want to lower your screen resolution? Usually the higher the resolution is , the better fonts display. To make websites appear bigger in firefox press ctrl and + or - to make them smaller.ϑ

Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

teateawhy wrote:

ϑ wrote:

My default screen resolution is 1680x1050 and I have been trying to lower it for getting better visibility in firefox.

May i ask why you want to lower your screen resolution? Usually the higher the resolution is , the better fonts display. To make websites appear bigger in firefox press ctrl and + or - to make them smaller.ϑ

In my case, I find that higher resolution implies tiny size fonts. If I increase the default font size then the text in many websites tends to overflow. Plus I also wanted a lower resolution to play some old legacy game.

Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

ϑ wrote:

If I increase the default font size then the text in many websites tends to overflow.

Sorry. I still do not understand your point. You can resize everything on the page with firefox, that means nothing will overflow within text fields. Also you can specify a minimum font size and keep font sizes above the minimum unchanged. Some browsers allow you to change font size and overall size independently, too.EDIT: Was meant as a recommendation, not giving you a hard time ...

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Why give OP a hard time? He/She would like to change their screen resolution.

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teateawhy wrote:

that means nothing will overflow within text fields.

Unfortunately, this isn't true. Sometimes on certaing webpages, certain widgets/text (1 of the 2) do overflow and are visible partially only. I have encountered this sometimes while filling web forms. To workaround, I temporarily reduce the Minimum Font Size to 12.Also I require to use the lower resolution for certain games.

Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

Hi, My default screen resolution is 1680x1050 and I have been trying to lower it for getting better visibility in firefox.

Don't do this. Using a non-native res on a lcd will make it much harder to read. (and hur your eyes)

Simply increase the font and icon sizes instead.

This ^^^

I was about to ask whether this is an LCD or a CRT; it was not stated in the OP. Changing resolutions on a CRT is not an unreasonable thing to do. Running an LCD display at anything other than its native resolution is not really possible; instead you end up with ugly scaling in which every image pixel with a non-integer ratio has to move off center to align with the displays pixels. Some clever scalers will split a logical pixel across a couple physical pixels and fiddle with the intensity of each of those physical pixels; but this is always a bad compromise.

Having issued that advise, coupled with the suggestions on changing font size, let us let the OP choose

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Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

I registered specially for this and I don't see why you guys aren't simply helping him rather than telling him to make icons larger or scale the webpage in the browser.. This could help other people in other situations as well.

Maybe this situation will make you help look for solutions instead of workarounds:I have a 1440*900 screen on my laptop. I use this to stream games by attaching it to my PC which has a capture card. The input of the capture card is 1024*768. When I connect to this capture card, the laptop will automatically detect it as a secondary monitor at 1024*768.Now, what I did in the past, which is no longer possible, is that I lowered the resolution of the laptop screen to 1024*768 and clone the screens. I can't always see the screen during the stream so I need to be able to control the laptop without seeing the screen on the PC.

If anyone knows how I can change to a lower resolution using nvidia-settings, that would be great. Currently, the only resolution listed is the native resolution, just like the OP.

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InFerYes wrote:

I don't see why you guys aren't simply helping him rather than telling him to make icons larger or scale the webpage in the browser.

Because that's the better solution. An LCD only has one, native resolution. A smaller resolution will be scaled to this native resolution anyway, but such scaling means blur. I can't look at the blur of a non-native resolution for more than five minutes without getting dizzy. So I totally agree with others when they suggest to use other methods to make things bigger while the LCD stays at native resolution.

Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

While the "increase font size" solution is right for the "font size problem", but OP also wants to lower resolution in order that his / her games will appear larger on their screen. This has not been addressed.

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Re: [SOLVED] - Changing to Lower Resolution

InFerYes wrote:

I thought the Linux philosophy was: "Why do you want to do something? Because you can."

I don't know what you all believe in, but I agree to this.Although I agree that the best solution for the firefox problem might be just increasing the font size as you all suggested ( and what I have been doing since the past year or 2) , but there's no harm in trying something else, is it? And it would be cool if nvidia-setting gave an option of selecting screen resolution. Plus as flipper T said, I also wanted that to address a small problem related to running Commandos (A old windows game), on arch in full screen. That game only supports 640x480, if I remember correctly. I had tried running it a couple of months back, but couldn't get a full screen view on it. Will try again and provide some details.

Combined with usual Xorg modes and the ModeLine. I never got that working thought, and I usually change the resolution for games (My laptop's card barely support 1920x1080, so I have to help it a bit by lowering the game's resolution)

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flipper T wrote:

While the "increase font size" solution is right for the "font size problem", but OP also wants to lower resolution in order that his / her games will appear larger on their screen. This has not been addressed.

OP only mentioned firefox. (also lowering the rest in many games only makes them harder to see, due to pixelation etc.)

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Not that it matters , but I was using OP to refer to OPoster, not Opost:

"Plus I also wanted a lower resolution to play some old legacy game."....post #5.

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I'm sure it can be done from xorg.conf (or better yet, "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf") with something like:

Option "PreferredMode" blablabla

Google it.

Why? Because after Xorg has started with the native resolution (or whatever resolution thinks is native to the monitor), having it run at boot will flicker for a second or so, until it changes. This way it starts in that resolution right away.

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